In Taras Polataiko’s Sleeping Beauty, a tableau vivant performance piece at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the pretty, reclining young woman in question is under contractual agreement to marry whoever awakens her with a kiss. Her suitors have signed contracts, too, and they have also been vetted: proven to be single, tested for oral herpes and offered mints … Continue reading Taras Polataiko: The Untold Sleeping Beauty Tale